Bringing in Turkish troops signals we are no longer "Nation Building". This site to a sober analysis of US/Turkish goals.
Apparently the original plan was to quickly create a client state: Chalabi airlifted in to easily assume leadership of a gratefully liberated Iraq. A massive influx of aid would assure stability and free substantial American forces for redeployment.
The administration's cascade of miscalculation has left large parts of Iraq in turmoil. We need more troops in Iraq with few re-inforcements available. Bringing in Turkish forces, whose entry will almost certainly enflame currently quiescent Turkish Kurdistan, must seem a desperate gamble even to the optimists whose blunders have brought us to this point.
If Turkish entry widens the conflict we abandon the chance of political stability. We can only share the occupation of Iraq with the Turks, along with the oilfields. That the administration still hopes to find further uses for our forces in the region seems incredible.
Between the impending Turkish entry and the story of our brutal reprisals in Dhuluaya I'm reeling with horror and terror for the future. I don't know how many more illusions I can have shattered: we are in this war for oil and we truly do plan further operations to liberate the people oilfields of the region.
It takes donning a tinfoil hat to imagine how this scenario, if it occurs, can permit the reelection of George Bush. Yet this war is largely pointless if he is not re-elected, and no-one can doubt the President's determined focus on that goal.
Instead of a War on Terrorism, we create a Pax PNAC
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